Robert Barry (artist)
Robert Barry | |
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Born | March 9, 1936 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Hunter College |
Known for | Conceptual art, Idea art |
Robert Barry (born March 9, 1936, in the Bronx, New York) is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."[1]
Life and career
Barry was born and grew up in The Bronx. A graduate of Hunter College, he studied there under artists William Baziotes and Robert Motherwell, later joining the college's faculty. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art. Barry moved to Teaneck, New Jersey in 1974, with his wife and two sons.[2]
Work
Barry's work focuses on escaping the previously known physical limits of the art object in order to express the unknown or unperceived.[3] Consequently, Barry has explored a number of different avenues toward defining the usually unseen space around objects, rather than producing the objects themselves. "On Golden Square" has two different levels of perception: the light area, visible from distance, and the golden square in the center visible only from close.
Major nonvisible works from his early period include "Carrier Wave", in which Barry used the carrier waves of a radio station for a prescribed length of time "not as a means of transmitting information, but rather as an object.",
When asked about his piece for exhibition "Prospect '69," his response was "The piece consists of the ideas that people will have from reading this interview... The piece in its entirety is unknowable because it exists in the mind of so many people. Each person can really know that part which is in his own mind."[7]
Exhibitions
Barry's work has been shown in international events such as the Paris Biennale (1971), Documenta, Kassel (1972), and the Venice Biennale (1972).[8]
He is represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert Gallery.
- "SOMETHING IN A BOX by Robert Barry and other things in boxes by Philippe Cazal, Braco Dimitrijevic, Paul-Armand Gette and UNTEL", 2014, galerie mfc-michèle didier, Paris.
- "Taking your time - Robert Barry", 2012, gallery mfc-michèle didier, Paris.
Collections
Barry is included in the permanent collections of renowned museums including the
References
- ^ Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (New York, Praeger, 1973), p. 40
- ^ Genocchio, Benjamin. "A Career Built on Exploring the Boundaries of Art", The New York Times, November 30, 2003. Accessed December 6, 2009. "When, in 1974, he took up residence in Teaneck, with his wife and two sons, he was a young artist and lecturer at Hunter College in New York."
- ISBN 0-262-57111-0
- ISBN 0-520-20251-1
- ^ "Frieze Magazine | Archive | Archive | Robert Barry". www.frieze.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-02.
- ISSN 1043-6928.
- ISBN 978-3-03910-346-1.
- ^ a b Light and Dark - The Projections of Robert Barry 1967 - 2012, December 14, 2012 - January 26, 2013 Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Yvon Lambert Gallery.
Books
- Luca Cerizza, ed. (2008). Robert Barry: Real ...... Personal. ISBN 978-3905701487.
- Robert Barry, ed. (2004). Robert Barry: Some Places To Which We Can Come 1963-1975. Kerber Verlag. ISBN 978-3936646351.